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To the newcomer, Samba’s command line user interface appears to be a haphazard jumble of scripts and binaries with options and design principles that fade in and out of use according to some esoteric pattern. Douglas Bagnall The initial quote is from the SambaXP talk What should we do with our user interface? in 2019. Douglas wrote that nobody can fix it as experts are...
TL;DR SMB3 file transfer with encryption will be 4-6 times faster with Samba 4.12 Samba is getting out of the crypto business GnuTLS >= 3.4.7 required FIPS compliance ahead Introduction More or less since the beginning of Samba, it implemented the cryptography it needed to talk to Windows on its own. One reason is that Windows didn’t follow the standards or used ciphers nobody else...
Development / RedHat / Samba
TL;DR: Parse and print .cat files: dumpmscat Introduction Günther Deschner and myself are looking into the new Microsoft Printing Protocol [MS-PAR]. Printing always means you have to deal with drivers. Microsoft package-aware v3 print drivers and v4 print drivers contain Microsoft Catalog files. A Catalog file (.cat) is a digitally-signed file. To be more precise it is a PKCS7 certificate with embedded data. Before I...
Development / Linux / RedHat / Samba
Today I’ve released a new version of uid_wrapper (1.1.0) with full threading support. Robin Hack a colleague of mine spent a lot of time improving the code and writing tests for it. It now survives funny things like forking in a thread. We also added two missing functions and fixed several bugs. uid_wrapper is a tool to help you writing tests for your application. If...
Development / KDE / Linux / RedHat / Samba
Together with Jakub Hrozek I wrote an article about cwrap which is a set of tools to test your full software stack on a single machine. The article is open to the public now. Read the article …
Development / KDE / Linux / RedHat / Samba
on one single machine! FOSDEM/Brussels, February 2nd, I gave a talk about cwrap. I announced and released version 1.0.0 of cwrap, a set of tools to create a fully isolated network environment to test client/server components on a single host. It provides synthetic account information, hostname resolution and privilege separation support. The heart of cwrap consists of three libraries you can preload to any executable....
Development / KDE / Linux / RedHat / Samba
Next weekend, February 1st and 2nd, will be the FOSDEM conference in Brussels again. I will be there and give a talk in the Testing and Automation devroom. I hope you will be there and watch my presentation on Sunday, February 2nd, 11:30, Room: UD2.218A. See you there!
I spent the day to look at tmux and vim and found a lot of great plugins. What I really like for tmux and also vim is powerline. Powerline is a status-line and prompts utility to change the look and feel of your vim or tmux status lines. It looks like this: It consists of a special font, a python tool and plugins for applications....